Francesco Forastiere

Research interests

Publications

• Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and selected health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

  Environment International · 2022 · 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107262

• Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project

  The Lancet Planetary Health · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2542-5196(21)00277-1

• Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis

  BMJ · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1904

• Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

  PLoS Medicine · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002744

• Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

  JAMA · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.3820

• Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: an individual participant data meta‐analysis of European, North American and Australian cohorts

  BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.15661

• Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803222115

• A joint ERS/ATS policy statement: what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution? An analytical framework

  European Respiratory Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00419-2016

• Mother's education and the risk of preterm and small for gestational age birth: a DRIVERS meta-analysis of 12 European cohorts

  Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-205387

• Outdoor Particulate Matter Exposure and Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  Environmental Health Perspectives · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp/1408092

• Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from the ESCAPE Project

  BMJ · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f7412

• Preterm birth, infant weight gain, and childhood asthma risk: A meta-analysis of 147,000 European children

  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2013.12.1082

• Expert position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease

  European Heart Journal · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehu458

• Nitrogen dioxide and mortality: review and meta-analysis of long-term studies

  European Respiratory Journal · 2014 · 10.1183/09031936.00114713

• Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Incidence of Cerebrovascular Events: Results from 11 European Cohorts within the ESCAPE Project

  Environmental Health Perspectives · 2014 · 10.1289/ehp.1307301

• Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

  The Lancet Oncology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(13)70279-1

• Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

  The Lancet · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62158-3

• African dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean Basin during 2001–2011: PM 10 concentrations, phenomenology and trends, and its relation with synoptic and mesoscale meteorology

  Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1395-2013

• Long-Term Exposure to Urban Air Pollution and Mortality in a Cohort of More than a Million Adults in Rome

  Environmental Health Perspectives · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1205862

• Ambient air pollution and low birthweight: a European cohort study (ESCAPE)

  The Lancet Respiratory Medicine · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(13)70192-9

• Short-Term Effects of PM10 and NO2 on Respiratory Health among Children with Asthma or Asthma-like Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  Environmental Health Perspectives · 2009 · 10.1289/ehp.0900844

• High Temperature and Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Causes in 12 European Cities

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2008 · 10.1164/rccm.200802-217oc

• Short-Term Effects of Ambient Particles on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Mortality

  Epidemiology · 2006 · 10.1097/01.ede.0000199439.57655.6b

• Vulnerability to Heat-Related Mortality

  Epidemiology · 2006 · 10.1097/01.ede.0000208477.36665.34

• Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies

  BMJ · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38308.477650.63

• Acute Effects of Particulate Air Pollution on Respiratory Admissions

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2001 · 10.1164/ajrccm.164.10.2010138

• Co-morbidity contributes to predict mortality of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  European Respiratory Journal · 1997 · 10.1183/09031936.97.10122794

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